Tried booting into safe mode, keep BSOD at boot up, cant boot. Stuck in a crashing boot loop of BSOD

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I'm [language] freaking out right now. On Windows 8.1. I was trying to boot into safe mode with networking. I tried a couple times first by holding shift while I clicked on restart to take me to the menu to be able to boot into safe mode. Selected 5, to boot safe mode with networking. Did that like twice or 3 times. Every time I did that, it would just crash with a quick flash of the "sad face, Windows detected a problem..." So it just automatically restarted. Then I logged in, ran msconfig, went to the boot tab, changed the boot option to boot into safe mode automatically, specifically safe mode with networking. Well that was the bad [language] move here. Dipshit me didn't realize it would crash like it just was every time now since I just made it try to automatically boot into safe mode every [language] time.

So now it's trying to boot into safe mode every time and crashing every time. I'm in a [language] boot loop that crashes every time. I have no way out. I don't know what the [language] to do. Do I have to [language] reinstall windows???

The only chance I have is with the way windows is the Automatic Repair thing windows throws at me when I crash once when it tries to boot. So what it does is it says it's diagnosing my PC. Then I can either restart only to crash again, or use advanced options. I can then continue to Windows 8.1, only to crash again, troubleshoot, or turn it off. So troubleshoot is what I can go to. Options them are "Refresh your PC" which I tried and it doesn't work, next option is "Reset your PC" which says it will remove all of my files to reset my PC completely... No, I definitely don't want to have to do that... I only have some old backups that Windows did daily and it didn't even backup my program directories and everything. Last option is Advanced Options. Go to that. Options now are System Restore, which didn't work for me, System Image Recovery, I don't have one, Startup Repair, which doesn't help, Command Prompt, maybe that'll work if I can somehow make it so it isn't selected to boot into safe mode each time but I have no idea what to enter for that, and lastly Startup Settings which will let me choose to do things like boot into safe mode and enable debugging mode and stuff.

The command prompt seems like my only hope besides reinstalling windows. I just need to make this computer not try to boot into safe mode anymore. That's it. Again, I ran "msconfig" and then went under the boot tab and clicked the bullet for safe mode and the check box for with networking, hit apply, then ok, and then restart, now I'm in a loop where windows tries to boot into safe mode every time and every time I get a BSOD and it keeps trying to boot. I'm so [language] scared that I'll have to reinstall my OS and lose all of my stuff, that would be a devastating loss. All my game saves, work, all my files, all my programs, settings, everything. The only shit I have on my external HDD are backups of what was on my desktop, my documents, my music, photos.

Please help me in any way. If you need more information or have to guide me through, whatever, I'll gladly comply just to get this working again. Thank you. Sorry for the bad formatting, posting this on mobile in a rush. Thank you very much, in advance.

UPDATE:
Solution:

Went into the command prompt that I had the option of using in Windows Automatic Repair, did not need recovery disk or anything. Typed the following exactly as it is and the command prompt said something along the lines of "Blah blah was successfully executed/completed."

Code: 
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot
 
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if your pc is the parts that are listed the cx power supply is not a good unit. i would see if the pc power supply is having an issue outputting the power needed to run your pc. i would turn it off..unplug it from the wall so the mb will drain and pull the gpu and one ram stick and if you have a sound card pull it try making the pc as bare bones as you can. see if the pc will boot from normal mode or safe with just one ram stick. if the bsod numbers change power off and swap ram. also in the bios set the ram to 1600 stock speed and make sure the mb running standard speed not over clock.
 
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At boot his pc won't require more than 200W of power, maybe 250, unless the PSU is DEAD, which I highly doubt is the case, he should be able to boot. Sounds more like SSD dying but no way to really tell like this. Should try removing the GPU and running with onboard.
 
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I say lose all my stuff by meaning losing what's on the C drive, which is still a lot. Yes, you reminded me I have my files on a secondary HDD, but I still have the other 500GB of data on the SSD that would be gone. I know it's petty, but what comes to mind are my fallout 4 saves which are only on the C drive as far as I know. So many hours, days put into it and all my like 90 mods... All could be gone.

Anyways, point is, losing the data on the C drive is the absolute last thing I want, I know it would seriously be a big loss. No error message other than a BSOD, it only appears for a split second before the system restarts. I know it's doing this because it keeps trying to boot into safe mode, the issue is I can't boot and log in to select it to no longer boot into safe mode every time.
 
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Ok first try removing your GPU and running with the integrated, if same thing happens, then what you can do is remove the SSD, install an OS on the HDD (hopefully you have a partition there which you can sacrifice or you have another hdd) and boot from it. if you can boot, either the windows is toast or the ssd, but at least if you can boot from the HDD then you will be able to at least access your files on the SSD (assuming it's not dead).
 
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Update to clear confusion.

Thank you all for the help, let me just clarify a bit.

The issue here is that for some reason, Windows gets a BSOD when I tried to boot into safe mode. I had set it to boot safe mode every time, so now every time it gets a BSOD since it tries booting into safe mode every time. What I need to do is simply make it no longer try booting into safe mode each time.

The chance of it being that the SSD, GPU, or PSU suddenly died in this coincidental timing is like 5%, it's just about a month old.The gpu also is about a month old. None of these parts have had any signs of issues before.

I'll remove the GPU tomorrow and maybe that'll let it boot into safe mode normally and I can get on with life again. But for now it's late and I need to sleep.

This is how I set it to boot into safe mode each time. Option 2 on this guide linked below. Basically the same process on Windows 8.1.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/69585-safe-mode.html
 
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@Gingerbread

Thats the issue. I can't boot normally. I ran msconfig, and changed the setting to always automatically boot into safe mode when it boots. There's no way for me to boot normally until I can boot into Windows and change that msconfig setting to no longer force safe mode booting.

Anyways, another update.

Just removed the GPU and tried booting, still getting BSOD.

All I need to do is make windows stop forcing itself to boot into safe mode every time it boots. Thats literally all I need to do so that it will boot normally and I can change the settings within windows to make it no longer boot into safe mode each time it tries booting.

I can access the command prompt from the options I am given from Automatic Repair. If I can somehow use the command prompt to make windows stop trying to boot into safe mode every time, that would fix this. But I don't know if that's possible via command prompt.
 
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Thanks, didn't see that part at first, I'll try it when I'm at my computer later in the day.

I basically got this same answer elsewhere. Someone said to enter this into the command prompt ">bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot"
And having read option 3, it seems like it would work. The identifier in the brackets should be "default" wouldn't it, since I set msconfig to boot into safe mode every time like a default command?

Either way, I'll try that command and hope to shit it works, if not, I'll try different identifiers.

Will report back later in the day when at computer.
 
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FINALLY

Solution:

Went into the command prompt that I had the option of using in Windows Automatic Repair, did not need recovery disk or anything. Typed the following exactly as it is and the command prompt said something along the lines of "Blah blah was successfully executed/completed."

Code: 
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot
 
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Oh my freaking gods, thank you soooo much. My computer would load past the logo screen, and it was just because I had it plugged into a bad outlet! Thank you thank you thank you!
 
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